Spelt'Aap
Gistgeest in Deurne, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
6.79
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Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Spelt'Aap from Gistgeest 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Very good, ultra-dense pale mango-yellow head over fully hazy orange-ochre beer. End of bottle solid yeast. Fresh-smelling nose, herbal, weeds, EU hops, nettles, citruspeel. Yeastesters. Bitter, hoppy, with sweet malts tucked underneath. Slightly burning feel. Typical spelt thumbprint is there, if mutch less than in some other speltbeers. Again garden weeds, nettles. Quite slick, medium bodied (high for a "saison"). Feels better carbonated than it looks. Nice! Seriously bitter, but nowhere unpleasant.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Spelt'Aap from Gistgeest 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Strong saison brewed with spelt (so could have fallen under the 'specialty grain' category just as well), steinie bottle from Kevin Devos' BeerShop in Kontich near Antwerp. Gusher, slowly but stubbornly overflowing as I remove the crown cap. Mousy, initially thick and frothy but quickly receding, egg-white, sparsely lacing, opening head over a lightly hazy, warm peachy-orange beer with swirling strings of tiny, but numerous bubbles; turns equally misty with sediment poured in. Yeasty nose of orange flesh, half-dry mandarin peel, green kiwi, chewing gum, white bread dough, halfripe banana, green apple, ginger powder, dried basil, vague (phenolic) peppermint leaf note even, white rum, powder sugar, ripe peach, pear jelly candy. Sweet onset with pronounced banana isoamylacetate, bit bubblegummy, notes of ripe pear, pineapple and peach, light sourish undertone accentuated by sharply prickling, but not too coarse carbonation, quite minerally; soft and fluffy mouthfeel, a soft bready and slightly honeyish malt sweetishness soaked in ongoing fruity esters and spicy phenols, the latter assuming a clove-like and a tad minty form in the end but fortunately not descending into medicinal territory. Spelt provides a rustic but subtle multigrain-bread-ish spiciness to the fluffy malt body, a certain 'twang' that fits in well and matches nicely with the spicy, leafy bitter character of the hops in the end. These hops even have a very light grapefruity edge and deposit a resinous, but altogether fairly 'friendly', if confident bitterness on the tongue's root. Warming, gin-like alcohol is obvious without turning unpleasantly astringent, while yeast breadiness and spiciness linger. Starts off with sweetness (also in the nose) and ends spicy and bitter, though at the same time remaining very juicy and quaffable: this is, although quite classically Belgian in comparison with most of Gistgeest's other beers, a pleasant strong saison in the vein of Moinette, La Moneuse and other Wallonian classics of comparable strength. Not a bad effort at all for such a young brewery.